iOS 11 Accessibility Quick Start Guide Overview This guide explains the new and updated iOS 11 accessibility features and how to use these features on an iPhone and iPad. Accessibility Tab To access the accessibility features within iOS 11, go to Settings→ General → Accessibility. Vision VoiceOver VoiceOver is a feature iOS 11 that allows the user to hear a description of everything on the screen. To enable this screen reader go to Settings→ General→ Accessibility→ VoiceOver and swipe on. To access VoiceOver, triple click the Home button. When activated, tap once to select an item, double-tap to activate the selected item, and swipe three fingers to scroll. Language To increase or decrease the speaking rate, slide the cursor from left to right until satisfied. To change the language or dialect of a language go to: VoiceOver→ Speech→ Rotor Languages→ Add New Language. If the desired language is not listed, you can download the Enhanced Quality version. You can also chance the pitch by sliding the cursor from left to right. Assistive Technology Resource Center Willa Johnson Colorado State University April 2018 http://atrc.colostate.edu http://accessibility.colostate.edu 1 Braille Screen To enable Braille screen, open Settings→ General→ Accessibility→ VoiceOver→ Braille. Rotor To activate the Rotor, place two fingers on the device and turn them to get a dial-like set of options for VoiceOver. This allows users to flick up or down to move through only the text you desire. Customize the Rotor By customizing the Rotor, an individual can track through the device quicker. The Rotor wheel can be customized by tapping VoiceOver→ Rotor. Select desired options such as Headings, Words, Lines, and Links. Improved Text Detection iOS 11 will now scan images for text and read it out loud when VoiceOver is enabled. This improvement applies also to pictures without text, where the picture gets scanned and a description is read out loud, including the overall tone of the picture and its setting. Speak Selection The Speak Selection feature allows the user to highlight text and then a button will appear on the screen that will read the highlighted text to the user. To enable this feature go to: Settings→ General→ Accessibility→ Speech → Speech Selection→ Tap on. Voices can be changed here. Speak Screen Speak Screen allows everything on the screen to be read out loud. To enable this feature go to Settings→ General→ Accessibility→ Speech→ swipe Speak Screen to the right. To activate this features during use, swipe two fingers from the top of screen downward. A small horizontal menu, such as pictured below, will appear that allows the user to control the speed, to skip forward or backward on the screen and to exit. Speak Screen uses a new high quality voice named Samantha. Image Recognition New to iOS11 Image Recognition, VoiceOver can describe images to you even if they have not been annotated. Select the image then tap the image with three fingers. Assistive Technology Resource Center Willa Johnson Colorado State University April 2018 http://atrc.colostate.edu http://accessibility.colostate.edu 2 Zoom Zoom Region Zoom Region is a new feature that allows the user to zoom a portion of the screen in a moveable window or zoom the entire screen. To activate go to Settings→ General→ Accessibility→ Zoom and tap on. To set preferred lens mode go to Zoom→ Zoom Region→ tap Window Zoom. To customize contrast or light settings, go to Zoom→ Zoom Filter→ select desired setting. Zoom Region Zoom Region (Inverted) Follow Focus feature Smart Typing will switch to Window Zoom when the user is typing on a keyboard and moves the window so that the text is zoomed but the keyboard is not. Show Controller feature Additionally, to increase control within the Zoom Region Window, users can activate the Show Controller feature. This features creates a ball controller to navigate in the zoom window on the screen with little finger movement. To activate go to Zoom→ Show Controller. When using Zoom controller, the user can initiate Full Zoom, Zoom Out, move the Zoom window around the screen, add filters to the zoom region and resize the zoom region lens. Color Filters The Color Filters feature displays all screens in a color scheme. This feature can also be displayed within the Zoom window. To activate Gray Scale go to General→ Accessibility→ Display Accommodations→ Color Filters→ select desired color filter. Filters include grayscale, red/green filter, blue/yellow filter, and color tint. Assistive Technology Resource Center Willa Johnson Colorado State University April 2018 http://atrc.colostate.edu http://accessibility.colostate.edu 3 Bold Text The Bold Text feature bolds all text on the device screen better visibility. To enable this feature go to: Accessibility→ Bold Text→ Tap on (the device will restart). Larger Text The Larger Text feature allows the user to customize the preferred text size for applications that support Large Dynamic Type. This can be enabled by going to: Accessibility→ Larger Text→ Tap on the Larger Dynamic Type. To establish the preferred size of text, drag a finger across the slider from left to right and an example of text will be provided in a window above to assist in choosing a size. Button Shapes To make buttons easier to see, iOS11 can add a colored background shape or underline to buttons. Go to Settings→ General→ Accessibility. Assistive Technology Resource Center Willa Johnson Colorado State University April 2018 http://atrc.colostate.edu http://accessibility.colostate.edu 4 Increase Contrast The Increase Contrast feature improves contrast on a background in order to increase the legibility for the user. To enable this feature go to: Accessibility→ Increase Contrast→ Tap on. Reduce Motion Reduce motion is a feature that reduces the parallax effect. When enabled, the motion when opening apps and alerts will gently fade in and out, instead of quickly zoom in and out. To enable this feature go to: Accessibility→ Reduce Motion→ Tap on. On/Off Switch Labels An additional label can be used to show that a setting is on or off. Go to Settings→ General→ Accessibility→ turn on On/Off labels switch Face ID & Attention Face ID provides intuitive and secure authentication enabled by the TrueDepth camera system, included only on iPhone X. To enable this new feature, go to: Settings→ Face ID & Passcode. Users with physical limitations can select →Accessibility Options during enrollment, what will not require the full range of head motion. Face ID has an accessibility feature to support individuals who are blind or have low vision. To enable, go to: Settings→ General→ Accessibility, and disable Require Attention for Face ID. Smart Invert This new setting inverts only the colors on the screen desired by the user. To enable, go to Settings→ General→ Accessibility→ Display Accommodations→ Invert Colors→ turn on Smart Invert. Auto-Brightness When this feature is enabled, your screen will dim or brighten depending on the surrounding lighting conditions. Go to Settings→ General→ Accessibility→ Display Accommodations→ Invert Colors→ tap Auto-Brightness switch on/off. Interaction Features With iOS11 you can switch between keyboards, enable one-handed typing, and change the layout of your physical keyboard. Software and Hardware Keyboards If you have difficulty using the keyboard, you can adjust settings to show only uppercase keys on the keypad, use sticky keys to press and hold modifier keys as you press other keys, and use Slow Keys to adjust the time between when a key is pressed and when it functions. Go to Settings→ General→ Keyboard. Assistive Technology Resource Center Willa Johnson Colorado State University April 2018 http://atrc.colostate.edu http://accessibility.colostate.edu 5 One-handed Typing To enable one-handed typing, go to Settings→ General→ Keyboards→ One Handed Keyboard. You need an iPhone 6 or later with iOS 11 to use One Handed Keyboard. To access this feature on your keyboard, touch and hold or . Tap to move the keyboard to the left. Tap to move the keyboard right. When you're finished typing, touch and hold or . Then tap to bring your keyboard back to its usual setting. Switch Control Switch Control lets you control your mobile device using physical switches. Switch Control highlights items and item groups one by one on the device screen. To make a selection, the user activates a switch when the desired item or item group is highlighted. When an individual item is selected, scanning stops and a new control menu appears. This menu allows the user to choose a physical action to perform, including tap, scroll, press the Home button, perform a gesture (flick, drag, etc.), select a device operation (rotate screen, triple-click Home, etc.) and the option to access Switch Control settings. Three methods of using switches are item scanning, point scanning, and manual selection. To add a switch, go to Settings→ General→ Accessibility→ Switch Control→ Switches. Reachability This iPhone feature allows you to navigate through your device more conveniently with just one hand, reducing the user’s interface screen size. To enable: Settings→ General→ Accessibility→ tap the Reachability switch on/off. Once enabled, double tap the home button anytime to activate (on iPhone X, touch and swipe down the gesture bar at the bottom of the display). Double tap again to go back to full screen navigation (touch and swipe up the gesture bar on iPhone X, or touch an area outside of the user’s interface panel). Assistive Touch AssistiveTouch allows you to manipulate the screen with and without adaptive accessories. The AssistiveTouch menu lets you access features such as the home button, enable Siri, access Control Center or Notification Center, adjust device volume, shake, take a screenshot, and others.